C 23 (I 53)
Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
Build Group: | C2 |
Fate: | Scrapped in December 1921. |
Commanders
1909: | Lieutenant R R Turner |
1912: | Lieutenant J K P Sherlock |
1912: | Lieutenant Geoffrey Layton |
1914: | Lieutenant Commander Geoffrey Layton |
1914: | Lieutenant Harrington D Edwards |
1915: | Lieutenant Thomas Kerr |
1916: | Lieutenant H C Carlyon-Britton |
1917: | Lieutenant Ian Agnew Patteson Macintyre |
1918: | Acting Lieutenant C A E Cox |
1919: | Sub Lieutenant W E Higham |
1909: 7th Section - HMS Vulcan - Dundee.
1912: 7th Flotilla - HMS Vulcan - Dundee.
1914: 7th Flotilla Chatham, HMS Vulcan and Alecto
1914: 7th Flotilla - HMS Vulcan - Rosyth.
1914: 7th Flotilla - HMS Vulcan - Leith.
1916: 1st Flotilla - HMS Hebe - Leith.
1916: 9th Flotilla - HMS Forth - Harwich.
1917: 4th Flotilla - HMS Thames.
1917: 9th Flotilla - Harwich.
Another of the C class which took part in trawler/submarine operations.
Had difficulties trying to slip her tow from the armed trawler Ratapiko in August of 1916. The attack on the unsuspecting U-boat had to be aborted.
Events
07-02-1908 | Laid Down |
26-11-1908 | Launched |
05-05-1909 | Completed |
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